Olga Popova

Dmitry Romanov

Valery Loiko

Marina Evseeva

The aim of the study is to elaborate models and techniques for assessing methodical significance of research results. It is fairly common knowledge that theoretical significance of individual research outcome is evaluated by means of scientometric parameters based on citation rating, first of all – on Hirsch index and on the total number of references to researcher’s papers; theoretical significance of collective results is evaluated similarly. However, these methods and techniques based on citation rating have one fundamental flaw – they fail to assess permanence of research outcomes utilization for further scientific and technological developments. Assessment of practical significance of research is even more challenging. Therefore, the authors suggest an additional integrative indicator, an intermediary between theoretical and practical significance of individual and collective research results – methodical significance. This indicator can be also viewed as an integrative criterion for assessing the interrelation between science and education, as the most important common feature of science and education is spreаding (dissemination) of accumulated knowledge.